We share so much personal information on Facebook now a days, it is a good idea to make sure your security and privacy settings are set up in a way that only people you trust can see your Facebook profile. Privacy protection is a must do thing on Facebook especially for girls. In this post you will learn how to protect your content and profile from un-authorized persons on Facebook. There are several of things that people should not display public ally as Facebook data also index able in google and most important of them is your profile picture. In this post I will share some tips to protect your personal data from public especially people you don’t know.
Tips for Facebook to Protect your personal Data from Public
Use Your Facebook Username for login instead of Email.
Never Accept Friend Requests from Unknown persons.
Never enter your Facebook password outside the Facebook website. Facebook logins to other websites just done via single click there is no need to enter your Facebbok password on other website asking for login.
When you log in to your Facebook account from a shared or public PC, don’t check on ‘Keep me logged in’.
Initially your profile see those people you don’t know. Click the down arrow next to ‘Who can see my stuff ?’ and where it says ‘What do other people see on my Timeline?’ click ‘View As’.
Click the privacy icon, then the down arrow by ‘Who can see my stuff ?’. Under ‘Who can see my future posts?’ select ‘Friends’ from the list.
You don’t want strangers seeing all of your information. From the privacy menu, expand ‘Who can contact me?’ then under ‘Who can send me friend requests?’ you can choose only ‘Friends of Friends’ – people your friends know – to be able to send you a friend request.
Some More Tips for Facebook Facebook Privacy Settings
To make changes in privacy settings click the padlock on the top-right and a drop-down list of the most popular privacy settings is displayed.
Turn Off Search Engine Indexing
As you may know or don’t know your profile data is by default set to Indexable by all search engines. And search engine display your profile data such as Name, Status, Info & most important Profile Picture. You should disable this option
Goto“Privacy Settings”
Look for“Who can look me up?” and see the second option saying “Do you want other search engines to link to your timeline?” and unchecked the box
Make Your Stuff Visible to Friends Only
Goto “Privacy Settings” Look for “Who can see my stuff?” Edit This Setting and Chose “Friends”
Make Your Profile Picture Protected
Now you need to make your profile picture did not viewed in full screen or full size. To make this happen
Goto Your Photo Albums & Open “Profile Picture” Album
Now open your any photo you want to protect by clicking on it, a popup window should open Change “Public To Friends “
Securing Your Facebook Profile from Hacking
1: Goto “Account Settings”
Navigate to “Security Tab”
Make Sure “Secure Browsing is Enabled”
Make Sure “Login Notifications” is Enabled via “Text Message/Push Notification”
Enable Login Approvals as “Require a security code to access my account from unknown browsers”
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